Sack-baler.



Pmm. 4,1912

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INVENTOi WITNESSES Arronuv J. F. JONES.

SACK BALEB.

APPLICATION FILED MM. 20, 1911.

Patented m. 4, 191:1,

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ATTORNEY JAMES I E'LQYID JONES, 0F MONE'I'A, IOWA, ASSIGNOR 9F ONE-HALF T0 FLOETE LUMBER C(JMPANY, 01E S?ENCER. IOWA, A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

SACK'BALER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4,19i'tf.

Application filed'March 2t), 1917. Serial No. 15fl,08 2.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. Jones, a.

citizen of the United States, residing'at Moneta, inthe county of OBrien and State oflowa, have invented new and useful lmprovements in Sack-Balers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved sack bale'r for baling or arranging in bundles, sacks such as cement sacks, or grain sacks, after they have been emptied and for shipment back to the mill or factory, the object of the invention being to provide an improved machine of this character which is extremely cheap and simple, is strongand durable, which is adapted to be operated manually,

and by means of which empty sacks may be expeditiously arranged in bundles for shipment.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved sack baler of this charac ter which also passes the baling' wires around the bale or bundle while the bale or bundle is being formed and greatly facilitates the fastening of the wires around the bale or bundle.

With the above and other objects'in view the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of. a sack,

baler constructed and arranged in accord ance with my invention and showing the compressing and binding arms in the position assumed thereby when forming a bale 0r bundle. r

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View of the same in the same position.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same with the compressing and binding arms in lowered open position. i

Fig. 4 is a detailed longitudinal view. I a

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a table 1 which is here shown as having a supporting frame comprising legs 3 and upper and lower bars 4, 5 which connect the legs together and serve to strengthen the construction of the frame. The table is provided with transverse slots 6, three of said slots being here shown, one midway between the ends of the table and the others midway between the center slots and the.

ends of the table. Longitudinal irons 7 and extending a suitable distance below the closed position.

sectional are provided with depending han'gen 8' arranged in opposite sides of sad lots table top. A pairof oppositely arranged compressmg and binding arms 9 are arranged formovemcnt in each slot and are provided with downwardly eXtending cross-lever arms ,10 which arepivotally mounted on bolts 11 which connect the hangers in pairs.

A link 12 is pivotally connected. as at 13 to eachlever arm and the saidlinks have their lower cndspivotally connected as at to a leveriosaid, lever being provided with fork arms 16 which are bolted thereto ratchet teethQO on one side, any one of whiclymay be engaged a locking lip 21 with which the" lever is provided, to secure the lever and the compressing and binding arms with the said arms in either open or It will be. observed that the crossed lever portions of said compressing and binding I armsv and the. operating links and lever thereforyand also the ratchet bar are arranged below the table so that the table top ing and binding arms and when said coinpressmg and bmdmg arms are open -the central portion of the table is entirely unob the binding wires 23 and to pass the binding wires around the bale or bundle at the same time that the bale or bundle 1s formed by the binding and compressing arms.

'VVhile the compressing and binding arms are in closed, bale or bundle forming-position, the ends of the binding wires are twisted together by the operator, thus completing the formation and securing of the bale or bundle so that when the con'lpressing and binding arms are then opened to release the is unobstructed excepting by the compressbale or bundle the latter Rwy be removeai ma} irons 0'11 the table am} having downfrom the table in a, completed condition. wardly extending hangm: arms arranged ai;

While 1 have herein shown and described. the sides of the slot and extending below a preferred form of my inveziltian I Wauld. the table, a. pivot ccn'necting" thvhahger have it. understood that changes may be arms a pair of campressing and binding made in the farm m'oportio'n anckconstruc arms mounted on the pivat and arranged Men of the several parts, flmufi fiewm'iing for movel'nent in the slot and above the tabla from the spirit of my invm m miiis' within toward and from each other, and epemting tha sco pe 0f the appended. claim Hmans for said arms and. arranged helm? Kim 111g thus described inivm'ii-an the La 1+3. whim 1' claim is:--- In testimony whereof I affix my signanniel' of the class describa cemwising' tux-e.

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